"A time-teller? Then what does it say the time is? Badger, surely you must know these things." yipped the fox, circling excitedly around the old octagonal stone.

The badger stood on her hindlegs and looked at the object ponderously, patting the pointer with her paw and assessing it from different angles.

"I think it's wintertime," she said, finally.

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